

Umpire Joe West Says Phillies Pitcher Cannot Refer.


(No pictures exist, sadly, of the backpack that was stuffed with clanking beer bottles that we slipped past the ticket-taker. So: Here are some pictures from Game 154 in 1982, which the Yankees won 6-2. And that's why #51 (Reid Nichols) in standing next to right fielder Dwight Evans instead of Fred Lynn (#19) during a pitching change. There was a #11 in 1982, infielder Dave Stapleton, and seeing him in a group alongside Jerry Remy, who played for both the 19 teams, makes sense. Dennis Eckerlsey started both games for the Red Sox and - amazingly - he was relieved by Tom Burgmeier both times. Looking at them, I can see how I was fooled. Ray and I were at Fenway on September 25, 1982, and that is where all of these pictures were taken! Not 1978, but a little more than four years later. From what little I remembered, I tried to figure it out - and these pictures prove that my guess was correct. Was THIS the game I had tried to find with a "Tracer" in 2008? My friend Ray and I had gone to Fenway in 1982, but I did not know which game we saw. Plus, there were several pictures taken from right field - both before and during the game, something I know the 14-year-old me did not do. The visiting pitcher's number listed on the scoreboard belonged, not to Ron Guidry, who I saw pitch, but to Domingo Ramos, who had made his major league debut the night before.

A Boston player was wearing #11, a number no one wore in 1978. Sparky Lyle's number was being wore by a black man and there was a white guy at first base for the Red Sox instead of George Scott. While preparing this post for the 1978 anniversary date and trying to identify various players, I kept running into problems. I have pictures, but from a different game. At the end of that post, I said I had also converted some slides from a Red Sox/Yankees game on September 9, 1978. The 1986 Boston Red Sox won the League Championship Series.On August 22, I posted some pictures I took at my first game at Fenway Park, way back in 1976.
#1978 RED SOX ROSTER PLUS#
Roger Clemens earned 24 wins on the mound for the team, plus Oil Can Boyd, too added 15 or more wins, too Roger Clemens recorded a 2.48 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers. Wade Boggs led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting. Don Baylor walloped 31 home runs for Boston, while Jim Rice, Bill Buckner, Dwight Evans and Rich Gedman each swatted 20 or more, too. The Red Sox scored 794 runs and yielded 696 runs. The Boston Red Sox of the American League ended the 1986 season with a record of 95 wins and 66 losses, finishing first in the AL's East Division.
#1978 RED SOX ROSTER SERIES#
27,173 Ballpark: Fenway Park II Won League Championship Series American League Championship Series - Defeated California Angels 4-3 World Series - Lost to New York Mets 4-3 Manager: John McNamara (95-66) Location: Boston, Massachusetts 1986 Boston Red Sox Statistics 1986 Boston Red Sox Results
